Composer Anagram Quiz Answers

There were 33 correct entries submitted by the closing date of 11 December 2004. The first winner picked out of the hat, Mrs van Pelt from Den Haag in the Netherlands, asked for the draw to be done again, and this time James Lobban picked out the name of Sarah Woodward of Udny, Aberdeenshire.

Choir redefined gargle

George Frideric Handel.

Bach snored longer

Arnold Schoenberg.

A nicer cello largo

Arcangelo Corelli

Master Noah

Thomas Arne

Sally's wee emu

Samuel Wesley.

Balkan victors linger

Sir Granville Bantock

A nominal oboist

Tomaso Albinoni

Tenors belch

Ernest Bloch

Barking Fred

Frank Bridge

Ee, merry oboe magic!

Giacomo Meyerbeer

A bold robin song

Orlando Gibbons

Ermine Bach mauler

Emmanuel Chabrier

Togs amazed frugal woman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Kirov's stingray

Igor Stravinsky

Such sane tenors

Ernest Chausson

Camel‑hirer Jake

Jeremiah Clarke

Arsenic Nell

Carl Nielsen

Bash Mr Nocturne!

Robert Schumann

Seduce us, baldy!

Claude Debussy

Nude, all aflame

Manuel de Falla

Six-bar Ronald

Arnold Bax

I'm bard Willy

William Byrd

Choral song due

Charles Gounod

Paid churner

Henri Duparc

Ragged Verdi

Edvard Grieg

Aural doodle

Edouard Lalo

A glum harvest

Gustav Mahler

Red-raw chagrin

Richard Wagner

Clavier unit doomed

Claudio Monteverdi

Near-pagan violinist

Giovanni Palestrina

Omit circled sonata

Domenico Scarlatti

Presto magician

Pietro Mascagni

Loonier brand axed

Alexander Borodin

A smallish tot

Thomas Tallis

Plan a coda, Ron

Aaron Copland

Vital Bolshoi rôle

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Driest Bach amen

Bedrich Smetana

Byron hires ship

Sir Henry Bishop

A bugler afire

Gabriel Faure

The artistic pimple

Sir Michael Tippett